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YStudio had the privilege of being a sponsor contributing photography for this years Hope & Healing Concert Presented by the Instituto Familiar de la Raza in San Francisco, California.
This year the event’s fundraiser hosted the songstress of Afro-Peruvian song, Ms. Marina LaValle. The event kicked off on Friday afternoon, October 22nd, with a Social Gathering and dinner at the home of Miguel Bustos which is located in the heart of the San Francisco’s Mission District. Many guests who attended the private social gathering and dinner referred to this being a special event held in the “purple house!” Special guests included Peter Bratt, Film Director of the film “La Mision”, and the Hector Lugo Trio.
The event which was produced by La Bohemia and the Insituto Familiar de la Raza was organized in a manner that was about community outreach, culture, awareness, kinship, and social justice. The overwhelming response and the entire event was wrapped up with an evening at the San Francisco Brava Theater with an amazingly spirited concert and performance by none other than Marina LaValle and her ensemble.
The performances were striking, powerful, impacting and spirited to say the least. We again were privileged to have been among the many sponsors for this event, and we would like to share a few of our favorite images from this event.
Marina LaValle, Afro Perivuan Songstress, Brava Theater San Francisco
Enjoy a slide show of our favorites, you may also purchase photos from this event here:
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Many of you are probably thinking, do they EVER photograph men!? Well, yes actually we do and here is proof! Meet Nhigel Anderson. I met Nhigel through a buddy of mine who mentioned that his nephew was interested in modeling. I took a look at some of the photos he had on his Facebook, and concluded that YES….Nhigel needed a shoot!
I came up with three looks for Nhigel, a Tommy Bahama look, an Urban look, and a CK look. From the very beginning I visualized a more edgy type of approach with lighting and I will show you here what was done differently to achieve it. Trust me it is ALOT easier than you think!
For instance looky here at the difference between each shot. mind you, we were shooting in the middle of the HOT bright sun and usually this creates flare ups and over blasted skies, which I don’t always hate, but on this shoot as mentioned, I was going for EDGY…..so here we go.
Notice photo 1 (natural light) shot in manual on my Canon 5D Mark II at 1/400 f7.1 ISO 100 on my Canon 24-70 f 2.8L lens
Now….notice another photo taken at 1/200 f 11 at ISO 100…you are probably saying what’s different? Well, lighting is what is different.
Here’s how I did it…..and mind you this is only because I only had one lighting assistant and one light stick. Val, my lovely lighting assistant (and if you believe this you are even funnier than me!) Val stands for Voice Activated Lightstand…LOL! Anyhow, my assistant is standing to the right of the camera, the light is roughly about 4 feet away from Nhigel, and after 1-2 tries I nailed the shot I wanted.
See the blue sky peeking through the palm trees? THIS is what I wanted instead of that white sky as you see in photo 1. Doesn’t lighting just change the entire feel? It gives it that edge and keeping this in mind, you can shoot all day long in that nasty hot blasting sunlight, challenge yourself. It’s ideal to shoot during photographer’s twilight time, but why not use the ole brain cells, and make it happen no matter at what time of day you are shooting.
Here are a few of my favorite photos using more or less the same concepts. ENJOY! And do ask questions if you have them!
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